wildfire ward

"CHAOS!" CRIES THE MAN WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE PATTERN BEFORE HIM. WE FEAR THE NIGHT, FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT LIES WITHIN.LISTEN. WATCH. LEARN. UNDERSTANDING IS THE AXE FOR THE TREES OF FEAR.
_{Quote Credit: Normal Horoscopes/The Caretaker/Cryptotheism}

I. index

II. guidelines

III. bio

IV. hooks n stuff

V. archon's thesis

VI. gallery

==----✽ THEMES---- == _{Magic, Slice of Life, Adventure, Research, Exploration, Poetic Exploration of Slash-n-Burn as Healing, the Consequences of Gilded Heroes}==--✽ STYLE-- == _{I go by partner's preference. I can be either short form or multi-paragraph. I will somehow be a ramblesome bastard in either form though.}

==--✽ WALKUPS-- == _{I am unfortunately too anxious for most walkup RP situations! If I'm at an event, I will engage in technical walkup RP, but otherwise, not my bag. I'm better off planning and setting aside time and energy for you.}==--✽ STORY PREFERENCES-- == _{If we're just starting together, then I'd prefer to stay on the lighter side of things. I will only go genuinely dark places with people I know and can trust. If you succeed the vibe check, then we'll have a conversation about what we're gonna poke and when. I've had real dealings with trauma/traumatic situations and some of how I've seen that in the FFXIV RP community in the past has been...lacking respect, to put it lightly. If you don't succeed the vibe check, I don't want to participate in your trauma-tourism. You will genuinely have more fun with that without me involved.}

==--✽ LORE-- == _{Talk to me about your genre preferences instead of "lore-adherence"- at this point in the game's life-cycle & this dev-team, everybody has a different definition of "lore-adherence". I will not label myself as either lore-flexible or lore-strict, to borrow RPhub's binary scale- "lore-appreciative", "lore-yes-and", "lore-cohesive narrative", maybe.}==--✽ ROMANTIC/SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS-- == _{Both Fana and I are married and not interested in other partners. Trying will get you nowhere. I welcome a funny friendship or queerplatonic vibe for Fana, if earned.}

Fana _Majora

^{I do not want to die who I am. I would like to live long enough to be someone else.}==--✽ BIO-- == _{Fana Wildstone was just a gleaner, once. She was a geologist specialist, retrieving what was told of her. The 8th Umbral Calamity changed a lot- her included. She struggled to return to normal for a long time, but with recent events- she's understood there is no return. She is forever changed. Time moves, evermore- so too will she let herself change. Let herself reach for a life she had convinced herself that she had never needed before- "One should never listen to the advice of those who never try."}_{Now, Fana is a skilled interdisciplinary mage, a Free Company leader, a monster hunter, and more- but, with a fond smile of an old friend, she'll still examine stones, metals, and crystals.}

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early 30s	age
Sun 23/3rd U. Moon	d.o.b
maverique	gender
demisexual	orientation
sharyalan	nationality

==--✽ HOBBIES-- == _{Birdwatching, butterfly watching, fishing, caving, archery, hiking, museum visiting, mountaineering, parkour, survivalism, urban exploration, rock climbing, candle making, cryptography, foreign language learning, lockpicking, scrapbooking, map making, magic studies, collecting books, reading, singing, whittling}

❝ _{Your very LIFE is an ACT OF DEFIANCE against TIME - plucked from death to CARRY THE FIRE.} ❞

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==--✽ AETHEROGRAPHY-- == _{Fana's Archon thesis pertains to a particularly niche area of aetherology- the study of aetheric architecture and how it's formed. Understandably so, to most people, aetherology and aetherography are one and the same. The differentiation is for niche, picky, uppity academic types that split hairs and fight via barely contained professional essays instead of messy group chat implosions. You can read more on the subject here.}==--✽ AETHERLOCATION-- == _{A family secret trick. It is, essentially, a narrative conversion of Prospect and Lay of the Land because I thought it'd be interesting to narratively play with those very mechanical in-game skills. Fana sends out an aetheric ping outwards and listens back for the return "sounds" of the stone and earth around her, identifying each by the exact sound every stone, metal, and soil makes. Picking apart orchestras of these sounds in her head to locate exact samples as- well. It's not as if she has a visual UI like we players do to do that. Identifying each stone, metal, and soil's "sound" has been a life-long chore and one she will willingly continue on for the rest of her life.}==--✽ AMALJIC MAGIC-- == _{Taught by Tuzigg Chah of the Brotherhood of Cinders, Fana has another pool of spell-casting theorycraft and philosophy to draw from, lending itself to her conjured Wildfire Sprite companion as well as enhancing her understanding of what it means to call upon fire.}==--✽ DRAVANIAN SECRETS-- == _{While she is no dragon and is nowhere near one's power level- their perspective on magic is informative and transformative, and a particularly handy tool of Fana's knowledge.}==--✽ SOMANOUTICS-- == _{Fana is a self-taught somanoutics expert with unorthodox opinions (read: DPS Sage as well as Miner Sage. She can teach Healer Sage, but this does contain Trap Cards; she will be so much more strict and unhelpful if you want Healer Sage. While antagonistic character writing may be something one may seek, this will not lend itself well to building positive, long term interactions with her due to her experience with people being horrible with Healer Sage. This route is only recommended for characters who have interacted with Fana repeatedly over long periods of time and gained Trust with her). She will teach most people who ask her to, including children- so long as you can keep up with the sheer amount of maths, logical chicanery, and interdisciplinary knowledge necessary, she will teach you. Especially so if you're not Sharlayan.}

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Aether-	"What is aether you ask? Why, only the source of all being! Though it cannot be seen, it is everywhere… or should I say, it is everything. Aether flows around us and within us, and without it we would cease to exist."	_{Nicia, Close to Home (Gridania)}
ography	A suffix denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc., or an art or science concerned with such a process.	_{Examples: biography, oceanography, geography, orthography}

Fana's Archon thesis details the recording and evaluating of aetheric records, typically in the environment. It is a fantasy mix of real world geophysics, radiocarbon dating, environmental chemistry, and Earth systems science. A lot of it is me deep-diving into aspects of aetherology that are generally handwaved away by quest dialogue and finding narrative in it for myself and further reason to explore the setting and really just kind of dig into it more.

AETHEROGRAPHY VS. AETHEROLOGY

"It's kind of silly that you're differentiating the two." I mean. Yes, silly straw man that lives in my carrd, it is silly, but at the end of the day, this is a hobby where we're playing digital dolls. I'm allowed to be silly.For me, how I'll be differentiating the two, is that aetherology is the knowledge of aether: its architecture and applications. Aetherography is how those architectures are formed, both environmentally and individually. Exploring these systems in both microcosms and macrocosms. How they reflect and differentiate. The two go hand-in-hand and inform the other's next steps.Understandably so, to most people, these two are one and the same. The differentiation is for niche, picky, uppity academic types that split hairs and fight via barely contained professional essays instead of messy group chat implosions.